ON THE MOUND: Manager Don Mattingly refused to say he's evaluating Roberto Hernandez and Dan Haren to determine who will be the Dodgers' No. 4 starter in the playoffs. True or not, Hernandez didn't help his case on this night. The 34-year-old lasted only three innings, the shortest of his 24 starts this season. Hindered by a Hanley Ramirez error, Hernandez gave up three unearned runs in the second inning. Hernandez made the situation worse in the third inning, when he served up a two-run home run to Jedd Gyorko that increased the Padres' lead to 5-0. Hernandez was charged with five hits and a walk. Hernandez was 1-1 with a 2.25 earned-run average in his first two starts with the Dodgers. Over his last four starts, he is 1-3 with a 6.38 ERA. Mattingly was forced to use five relievers, including Yimi Garcia and Kevin Correia, who each pitched two scoreless innings.

Pac-12 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott is sticking around for at least five more years.
The Pac-12's university presidents and chancellors extended Scott's contract Monday through the 2017-18 academic year. As part of the extension, Scott also was...

Ray Grebey
Headed baseball negotiations
during 1981 players strike
Ray Grebey, 85, who led Major League Baseball labor negotiations during the tumultuous 50-day strike that split the 1981 season, died Aug. 28 in Stamford, Conn. His family said he...

Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, announced he is retiring from that position at the end of the 2014 season. Selig found his early years filled with controversy and was held as a villain with players and the public.
He endured to leave...

Mention the phrase "Jewish sports legends" and you'll probably conjure up familiar suspects: Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz, maybe that joke from "Airplane."
You're more likely to omit Sidney Franklin, a matador from Brooklyn (real last name: Frumpkin), or Helene Mayer, an accomplished fencer who won a gold medal for Hitler's Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy want to make sure none of these personalities are forgotten. In "Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame" (Twelve:...

As a Jew who has been a baseball fan his entire life, I guess I'm the perfect target audience for "Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story," which opens Friday at the Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills and the...

Writers from around Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Please check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to leave a comment of your own. Juan C. Rodriguez, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Neither Marvin Miller nor George...

The man who stood and cried as he handed out the 2008 World Series rings in April of 2009 to the Phillies was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Expansion Era Committee. Pat Gillick, the man behind the...